Fantastic Anti-piracy Statement

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First of all damn you Internet, I should be memorizing quotations for finals which are like in less than 48 hours. So, I look forward to the abortion thread. Now I will puke out as much economic theories as I can in relation to piracy (of course under the influence of my own biases). Apple's autocorrect is ticking me off, but too lazy to get off bed to pc. Anyway, from the firm's perspective, they should know more than enough that due to the infinite supply of substitutes to their products in pirate land, the price elasticity of their goods is very high. Why spend money when it's free like fish in the sea, says the pirate. But fish is a common pool resource, firms aren't God, they can't make fish out of nothing. They made intellectual property which takes time and effort of coding and advertising and shit, of course they are profit-driven. Well then from a broke university student's point of view, information/intellectual property is too f**king expensive. If I paid for every textbook, every song, every video game and every database I have access to, I would be eating grass on campus next year, or maybe I can manage to have some campus geese. Information is supposed to be a common pool resource, not property because how can the poor break out of the poverty cycle without the great leveler (imo a useful brain comes before capital loan: if you can't use resources wisely then too bad, forever a loan)? Think about the positive externalities and happiness society gains from freeing up information and intellectual property! Suicide rates will fall as people begin to find meanings in life from free literature (except Camus and Plath, too dark), that's just epic. So firms should price discriminate, it works in a similar fashion as progressive taxation: let the more economically fortunate pay the price they can afford, under the assumption that the rich do not fall under the perfectly elastic demand of pirates. Idk auction out special video game/music collections with a piece of hair from the developers, whatever works. It sounds like donation but everyone forgets to donate. I'm not particularly worried about piracy, but locking up intellectual property will most likely start a zombie apocalypse. Why, I sounded like a socialist bastard. Off to eat more books.